Chirpscreen: Windows screensaver connected to your social networks

by Simon Kerbel Jan 24th 2008

Is your Windows screensaver getting stale? Does it consist of the same old pictures from your hard drive? Spice things up with Chirpscreen, an interactive screen saver that automatically updates with content from your Facebook and Flickr accounts, including content from your friends.

Chirpscreen is the first offering from Chirp, a company whose stated goal is to tackle the problems of social information overload. We're not sure why a screensaver that displays the information from your social networks should save you from overload; in fact, it seems more of an overload to have a screensaver that displays social content rather than simply a blank screen, aquarium, or otherwise.

With Chirpscreen activated, you'll see the pictures and updates from your friends swim slowly across your screen. Each piece of content is a hyperlink that, when clicked, will open a web browser and take you directly to the content in question.

As of now, you have three main portals in Chirpscreen: your Facebook account, Flickr account, and the option to pull in public Flickr images based upon generic tags of your choosing. Chirp hopes to add many more content options in the near future (and they'd love to hear what content you'd most like to see in your Chirpscreen).

Chirpscreen is currently in beta, and available for Windows only (the Mac version is coming soon).

Tags: beta, chirp, chirpscreen, facebook, flickr, screensaver

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

scheckley said 4:53AM on 1-25-2008

awesome, now

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